I doh care too much about Henry but he was France's top scorer in WC98, Euro 2000, WC2002 (nobody scored for France so it was a joint tie  ) and Euro2004. France's best striker in 3 of the last 4 tournaments. Not bad if you ask me when you supposedly have goal machines like trezeguet in your side. Henry scores big goals as I see it...the goal against RMAdrid and the goal against Juve leading up to the final...I guess those games are not important. Football is a team sport, so mango chow claim that Zidane and Makas had to come out of retirement cause henry was not pulling his weight is somewhat infantile. If that was the case, they would have brought in a better striker. Seems like it was the midfield that was not pulling its weight. But say what...that is football..we will see what we want to see.
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I guess "infantile" is the most appropriate adjective you could come up with. fine. Maybe France didn't need to bring in any other strikers because the were relying heavily on the corps of strikers that they did have, which included.....henry. But if the midfield was doing so poorly, whay was Djibril Cisse getting to score goals and not henry?
Hard luck with the "infantile" comment. I'll keep it to football talks.
Anyway, I doh know the answer to your questions. Maybe because Henry does a lot more than just score goals. Maybe he was out of form. I didn't watch the games so I can't tell you how Henry played and frankly, I don't care. I hope he doh score a single goal this WCÂ Not on Henry and I not on France. But seriously, was Henry missing his chances, or was he playing a different role for the national team? Did you see the games..was he poor? Did he link well with Cisse? I really don't know and the questions you ask could have any number of answers. In the end I give Henry his respect. I think he is a good player and I think he is a big game player. The only team I really see him struggle against in recent years is ManU and that is just the last couple of years. We have different opinions...but this one thing is true...no defender in the world would agree that Henry is not a big big player. That kinda argument could only go on between men on a forum who cyah get on the same field as Henry.
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I eh get vex dat yuh say I was being "infantile" I jes didn't agree since I din't call the man any names or anything like that......
ai see that men are getting quite impassioned in ther arguments and declaring victories without really reading properly what I am saying. I have yet to deny giving is credit as far as being a great player is concerned. I have NEVER said he is a slagger, or a wanker or a shit hong or anything like that. I have simply asserted that based on HIS performances for club and country matched up against the players that have been awarded the title as "World's Best Player", arguably or not, I think that henry has come short, during the times that people have been willing to place that crown upon his head. I am not saying that he is not a BIG player. Of course there are many, many defenders that would regard him as such But those same defenders would have said the same for all of the players that have been given the title: Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Zidane, Weah, Platini, Figo, and a HOST of young players today like Lampard, Gerrard, Owen, Tevez Shevchenko, and the list goes on. It didn't matter what the fine detals were with the Brazilian team or his club team: Ronaldo scored goals, and he scored them when they counted.....except in France '98, Zidane made plays when his teams needed him to. The afore, aforementioned players CARRIED their teams when they had to.....consistently and were given the title. Henry is yet to do that consistently for France as well as Arsenal.
I was a little venemous in my argument because he really showed poor sportsmanship after yesterday's game in a way that has become quite typical of Arene9 Wenger: when his team loses, it's the referee's fault, but when they win,(even at the benefit of poor officiating) they always deserv it.
Henry had not two, but three easy chances yesterday